Do people still play this game? If so, how much has changed since launch? It was pretty fun but it got repetitive after a while for me, and there was a distinct lack of diplomacy and in-ship missions (mainly because there was no ship interior). Have they fixed any of that? I'm thinking of subbing again.

It has gotten better. Mission Replay (accessed from the console in bridge ready room) and User-Generated Content (Still in beta though) are in, Crafting was redone, Aegis Ship Upgrades Crafting set, Borg ship upgrades from the STFs, and new dailies for the KDF is all I can remember from the top of my head.

Got any links to the info on said overhaul? I played the open beta and loved the space combat but hated every second of the very much forced ground combat... I'd be very interested in trying it again if the ground combat was fixed. Or has there been more improvements since beta?

Got any links to the info on said overhaul? I played the open beta and loved the space combat but hated every second of the very much forced ground combat... I'd be very interested in trying it again if the ground combat was fixed. Or has there been more improvements since beta?

In Development
These items are actively being worked on by the at this time

* Feature Episode Series 3
* New Ground Combat Mode (current plan is this will gain additional development resources and ship as a major feature of Season 4)
* Memory Alpha Crafting - Item Set (1 item at top of each tier), additional craftable consumables
* Adding the ability to ignore PVP invites
* New Gorn customization options
* New Running, Sprinting, and 8 direction of movement animations
* New Loading Screens
* New Earth Spacedock Exterior and Interior
* Andorian Playable Ship
* Adding a listing fee for the exchange
* More Skirt options
* UI: adding master looter icon to show in the team UI
* Ongoing support for new Foundry features and updates

Sounds pretty good, but what I really want to see is in-ship missions, though. I mean, 90% of the show takes place on their ships, and I find it a bit odd that they haven't taken that into account in STO. Great to hear that they're actively improving it though, I'll have to give it another try.

Thought it worthy to bump this thread because of new updates. Really like season 3 and its overhaul of the crafting system (I CAN ACTUALLY MAKE SHIT NOW!!!) I tried the foundry on the tribble test shard and it has some great potential to be the best MMO content creator. New utra items (Aegis/Borg) have been added which is cool as well.

In Testing
These items are currently being tested on either an internal test shard or on TRIBBLE/REDSHIRT

* Foundry: Mission Creation Tools
* New Playable Vulcan Ship
* TNG: All Good Things Uniform
* Open Jacket Uniform ("PC Gamer Cover")
* Feature Episode Series 3, This will be live on January 29
* New playable shuttles including the Delta Flyer

Under Investigation
These issues are hot topics in the QA and CS world. It by no means represents all the bugs we're looking into, but instead new issues that I want you to know we are on top of.

* Reports of expired exchange items not being returned to the user
* Daily PVP Reward Balance
* Fine tuning warp in and out animations
* PVP wrap up screens closing too quickly
* A way to edit prior captain's log entries
* Error Messaging related to "Unable to take down your sale. Please try again later."
* Increasing number of players allowed in social zones
* Adding a way to obtain the the Guramba Siege Destroyer using in game currencies
* Upgrading the amount of content Demo accounts are allowed access to
* Ridiculously difficult Borg in STFs
* Additional reports of the infamous 1 shotting dual pistol exploration creatures
* Better "Aid the Planet" rewards
* Distribution of Anomalies in various Star Clusters
* Interaction problems in STFs
* The Captain's Table
* Future Veteran Rewards past 400 days

In Development
These items are actively being worked on by the at this time by the development team.

* Feature Episode Series 3 missions
* 400 Day Veteran Rewards
* Ways to boost XP gain while leveling up (new type of consumables)
* PVE Mission Queue System (to allow Fleets to run private fleet actions, initiate episode replay etc)
* New Ground Combat v 2.0 - major update to weapons and a new over shoulder aim and shoot (optional) reticle system
* New Running, Sprinting, and 8 direction of movement animations
* New craftable consumable items
* New Gorn customization options
* New Loading Screens
* Imroved Sector Space Map
* New Earth Spacedock Exterior and Interior
* Andorian Playable Ship
* Better ways to promote and inform players about Feature Episodes in game
* Ability to spend Atari Tokens as well as Cryptic Points in STO
* Reviewing designs of the STFs to determine areas that need improvement and ways to make these episodes better
* More voice over and cutscenes in missions
* Ongoing support for new Foundry features and updates

In Design Discussions
The lead designers are currently discussing these features for implementation in an upcoming update

* Feature Episode Series 4
* Duty Officer System (formerly known as the crew system)
* New Bonuses, items, craftables, and game mechanics related to Duty Officers
* Redesign for Exploration Sectors (and Exploration in general)
* Off-Duty Costumes and ways to improve the feature so that costume rules are clearer and better defined
* Adding BOFF abilities to power list on the ground (so you can slot them)
* New Prometheus, Oberth, Vesta, Ambassador, and Future Enterprise ships
* Exchange Updates
* STF: The Hive

Long Term
Designs and features being considered for updates further in the future

I'm trying to say it's like some sort of long road trip, trucking from place to place takes a long time. I guess it doesn't illustrate that as well as I hoped

Oh.... I get it now.

Edited:

Cryptic goof'd again, the new Klingon shuttle on tribble Transwarps to ESD. You can't beam down to ESD, but you can go to any other starbase, beam down and change ships. Also apparently all the civilians on DS9 pack phasers.

How much exactly? Last I read was that they were adding daily borg missions that had better equipment rewards

Well a lot... Daily Borg missions? Don't remember anything like that. They have added 2 new missions series 5 missions each, a third one starting February 5th.
Klingon PvE missions. new ships, higher level Cap. I dunno, IMO its improved a whole hell of a lot since last year. I would have cancelled my sub the second month in if I was paying monthly, but I had a lifetime so I just kept playing once and a while. I play a lot more now then I did then.

Crafting has improved a a lot.

There is a mission maker on Tribble test server right now, should be on the Live server by sometime in March.

Is it even worth going back into this game? I played it through beta and mildly enjoyed it even though it was a massive grindfest with quests where you go to point A and kill, kill and kill. Not exactly in the Star trek spirit to be honest to boldly go and kill. On release STO was just a huge dissapointment. Heard it's changed a lot now in that year, groundcombat hugely improved, autofire is back, weekly episodes etc and just wondered if it was worth checking out again?